Overheard in the Agency

"Apparently she doesn't have a favorite movie, but we hired her anyway."
- Coworker last week, commenting on a new coworker

In advertising the personal is professional and the professional is, well, best done off-premises. Working at your cube is totally lamesauce unless the deadline was five minutes ago. I don't know anything about that because I like to kiss ass. I mean that robustly.

Enter my conundrum. I don't have crap to do right now, and I've exhausted my possibilities. I've had enough cigarettes and Diet Cokes, and flirted with the notion of putting up a Facebook page a little too vigorously. So instead I'm going to offer up my quote book from the past five months. All quotes from real advertising professionals.

BEST OF APRIL
"I'm going to crawl in a hole and die with a bald head."
- "It's like a Tool video."

BEST OF MAY
"Can I get the Internet on a CD-ROM ASAP?"
(Account Management)

BEST OF JUNE
"What is this?"
"It's the Internet."
(Two interactives over a new iPhone.)

BEST OF JULY
"No, I don't have Office on this one."
(Diva designer to client inquiring if she could launch PowerPoint on his laptop.)

Now, I'm off to discuss movies with the coworker featured at the top of this post.